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Everyone makes mistakes.1.. Making a mistake at work, however, can be more serious. It may cause problems for your employer and even affect the company's bottom line Evil consequences will finally come down to you. Simply correcting your mistake and moving on may not be an option. When you make a mistake at work your career may depend on what you do next.
Admit your mistake.
Tell your boss about your mistake immediately. The only exception is if you make an insignificant error that will not affect anyone. Otherwise, don't try to hide your mistake.2..
Present your boss with a plan to fix your mistake.
When you go to your boss to admit your mistake, you must have a plan for correcting it. Present your plan clearly. Tell your boss how long it will take to carry out your plan and if there are any costs involved.
Don't blame anyone else for your mistake.
3.. Encourage those who may share responsibility to follow your lead in admitting to your boss.
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There's a big difference between admitting your mistake and beating yourself up about it. Take responsibility but don't blame yourself for making it, especially in public.
Correct your mistake on your own time.
If you have to spend extra hours at work to correct your mistake, don't expect to be paid for that time.5..
A. Apologize for your mistake but don't beat yourself up
B. Usually you can correct your error or just forget about it and move on
C. You can use your lunch hour or come into work early
D. Pointing fingers at others won't help you if you make a mistake
E. Strengthen your friendship with your boss
F. You'll feel ashamed if your colleague takes the responsibility for you
G. You will look terrible if someone else discovers it
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Everyone makes mistakes. 1.. Making a mistake at work, however, can be more serious. It may cause problems for your employer and even affect the company’s bottom line. Evil consequences will finally come down to you. Simply correcting your mistake and moving on may not be an option. When you make a mistake at work, your career may depend on what you do next.
Admit your mistake.
Tell your boss about your mistake immediately. The only exception is that you make an insignificant error that will not affect anyone. Otherwise, don’t try to hide your mistake. 2..
Present your boss with a plan to fix your mistake.
When you go to your boss to admit your mistake, you must have a plan for correcting it. Present your plan clearly. Tell your boss how long it will take to carry out your plan and if there are any costs involved.
Don’t blame anyone else for your mistake.
3.. Encourage those who may share responsibility to follow your lead in admitting to your boss.
4..
There’s a big difference between admitting your mistake and beating yourself up about it. Take responsibility
but don’t blame yourself for making it, especially in public.
Correct your mistake on your own time.
If you have to spend extra hours at work to correct your mistake, don’t expect to be paid for that time. 5..
A. You can use your lunch hour or come into work early
B. You will look terrible if someone else discovers it
C. Apologize for your mistake but don’t beat yourself up
D. Pointing fingers won’t help you if you make a mistake
E. Strengthen your friendship with your boss
F. You’ll feel ashamed if your colleague takes the responsibility for you
G. Usually you can correct your error or just forget about it and move on
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We are surrounded by mixed messages about mistakes: we're told we earn by making them,
but we work hard to avoid them. So the result is that most of us know that we are going to make
mistakes, but deep down, we feel we shouldn't.
Experiments with schoolchildren who did well on a given test show that those who were
praised for being smart and then offered a more challenging or less challenging task afterward
usually chose the easier one. On the other hand, children praised for trying hard-rather than
being smart-far more often selected the more difficult task.
If we try hard to avoid mistakes, we aren't open to getting the information we need in
order to do better. In a writing study, experiments showed that those who are so scared to
make mistakes perform worse in writing tasks than those who aren't as worried about being
perfect. They fear receiving any kind of negative feedback, so they don't learn where they went
wrong and how to get better.
We don't just learn more when we're open to mistakes, we learn deeper. Research tells us
that if we're only concerned about getting the right answer, we don't always learn the
underlying concepts that help us truly understand whatever we're trying to figure out. Mistakes
need to be seen not as a failure to learn, but as a guide to what still needs to be learned. As
Thomas Edison said, “I am not discouraged, because every abandoned wrong attempt is
another step forward. "
Furthermore, we often make mistakes because we try new things-we wander away from
accepted paths. Teflon, penicillin-these are examples of great discoveries made by mistake.
Take a page from Albert Einstein, who said, "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never
tried anything new. "
1.What will happen to students praised for being smart in face of choosing tasks compared to students praised for working hard?
A. He will choose a less challenging task.
B. He will hide his mistakes from his teachers.
C. He will work harder to avoid mistakes.
D. He will ask his teachers for advice.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT acceptable according to the passage?
A. The more mistakes we make, the more we learn.
B. Mistakes can be used as a positive factor for success.
C. Being open to mistakes help you understand the truth.
D. A step forward may come from mistakes you've made.
3.What does the last paragraph want to tell us?
A. One must follow a correct path to avoid mistakes.
B. To become an Einstein, you should make mistakes.
C. You can't make mistakes unless you try new things.
D. Making mistakes is not a disadvantage in a way.
4. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. We can never avoid making mistakes when we work.
B. Success can't be achieved without making mistakes.
C. Mistakes should be treated with a correct attitude.
D. Try every means to avoid mistakes in our daily life.
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Nobody can avoid making a mistake at some point in their life. We might as well accept that something will go wrong and we will be to blame. It is therefore wise to work out some strategies for apologizing, and the best way to apologize is by letter.
We all say or do something that we wish we hadn’t said or done. You may say something that accidentally hurts someone, or you may provide a service which doesn’t come up to the standards that a client or customer expected. You may feel that it was a genuine mistake which couldn’t be avoided. Rather than dwell on the mistake, you should quickly try to remedy(补救) the problem. An effective letter of apology is an important part of that process.
For the content of the letter, just remember TABS－Timing, Action, Briefness, Sincerity.
The time of a letter of apology is important－it must be sent as soon as possible. Any delay in sending the letter will only worsen the problem. In this case “Better late than never” is not the best motto! The longer you wait before writing a letter of apology, the more it will seem that you have been forced into writing it.
Although it is important to recognize what has gone before, it is also essential to detail the action you plan to take to correct whatever you did wrong.
A letter of apology should be brief and the word “sorry” should appear no more than twice. Indicate that you are aware you are using it a second time “once again, I am so sorry for…” or “as I said earlier, I am really sorry about…”
1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. Advice on making fewer mistakes.
B. Strategies for making an apology.
C. Advice on writing a letter of apology.
D. Importance of a timely letter of apology.
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 2 means you ______.
A. don’t have to take the mistake you made seriously
B. don’t waste time worrying about what happened
C. forget about what happened
D. analyze who was at fault
34. 3.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A. It’s important to apologize timely.
B. A mistake is not always easy to clear.
C. People are always unwilling to apologize.
D. People should think twice before apologizing.
4.What will be discussed following the last paragraph?
A. The sincere tone of the letter.
B. The proper length of the letter.
C. An apology email, choice of the 21st century.
D. The importance of saying “sorry” more than twice.
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Are you afraid of making mistakes? Learn to accept mistakes as opportunities, and then you’ll feel less stressed and fearful and you’ll be more confident. 1.. So what should you do?
Be open to making mistakes
2.. Be open to making mistakes and consider them as opportunities to learn valuable life lessons. If you are open to leaning from your mistakes, you will be able to move on rather than wallowing in (沉湎于) regret.
Be aware
3.. Be aware of what you are doing, why you are doing it, how you feel, and how you make others feel. Sometimes, your words are not understood exactly or you say something but it is not what you meant to say. 4... By being fully aware of how you impact (影响) others, you maintain an open state of learning which allows you to constantly practice being a better person.
5..
Whenever you make a mistake or you are involved in a misunderstanding, take responsibility. There is always something to be learned or improved even if the other person is wrong, too.
A.Behave yourself
B.In short, you will benefit from the mistake.
C.Accept full responsibility
D.In other words, look for areas of improvement.
E.People have difficulty expressing what they really mean.
F.Accept that you’re human and that each of us will make mistakes
G.Repeat your words so that others can learn from your mistakes.
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Mistakes don’t just happen; they occur for a reason. Find out the reason and then making the mistake becomes ________.
A. favorable B. appropriate
C. essential D. worthwhile
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Mistakes don’t just happen; they occur for a reason. Find out the reason, and then making the mistake becomes ______.
A. favorable B. precious C. essential D. worthwhile
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Everyone makes mistakes in life, but for whales and dolphins, the “mistake” of landing on the shore costs the highest price---their lives.
People living along the coast of Australia and New Zealand have been shocked and saddened by the number of whales and dolphins that they have found on their beaches recently. Since November 28th, 96 whales and dolphins have died in Australia and 53 whales died in New Zealand. Although 20 whales were saved, some of these were not expected to live, as they were too weak to swim with the others back to sea.
Bob Brown, leader of Australia’s Green party, said the mass beaching was caused by the recent “sound bombing” of the ocean floor between the two countries. This is a method of testing for oil and gas reserves (储藏量).
But mass beaching of whales has long puzzled scientists. Typically most members of the stranded (搁浅) group will appear to be perfectly healthy. “Some researchers believe that close relationship within the group causes the problem, if one gets into trouble, the others will not leave” said Shery Gibney, a leading biologist in New Zealand. “Some will come in and try and assist it; if they get trapped on the beach, then more will come.”
Another common theory is that the whales’ navigation (导航) system are thought to break down in some way. It has been said that whales follow electromagnetic (电磁的) patterns in the sea-bed. The whales can get confused because these patterns sometimes change. That would be a bit like a new roundabout (环状交叉路) being built on a road you were used to driving on. You might be confused for a minute when you come to it for the first time, and you might even take a wrong turning before getting back on your route.
A different idea is that when whales chase fish for food they end up in shallow waters because they are not paying attention to where they are going.
And yet, from time to time a group will swim on purpose into shallow waters and end up on the beach, where they die. If returned to the sea, some whales often show great determination in restraining themselves.
1.________ whales and dolphins would probably die in this mass beaching along the coast of Australia and New Zealand.
A. Less than 100 B. Less than 150 C. More than 150 D. 149
2.Which of the following can be used to explain the term “sound bombing”?
A. The terrible sound that is caused in the war between two countries.
B. Human activities that aim to explore the ocean floor.
C. The loud sound that whales and dolphins make.
D. The earthquakes that happen on the ocean floor.
3.Which of the following couldn’t probably lead to the mass beaching of whales?
A. A change in the electromagnetic patterns that whales follow.
B. New roundabout being built on a road.
C. Their full attention to the search for food.
D. Exploiting natural resources in oceans.
4.The passage is mainly about _______.
A. that whales and dolphins may make mistakes as well as human beings
B. how scientists have found the reasons for the mass beaching of whales
C. how human beings make use of the ocean resources
D. why the mass beaching of whales happens
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Tom has no sense of life so he often makes stupid mistakes, making others laugh．
| A．ordinary | B．usual | C．good | D．common |
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This is the second time that I__________ the same mistake.
A．making B．make C．have made D．to make
but don’t blame yourself for making it, especially in public.